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Design, fabrication, and test of a novel single-band wearable antenna with dual-mode operation (on-body and offbody) for body area network’s applications in the 2.45 GHz industrial scientific and medical band are presented. The on-body mode is achieved with a microstrip ring while the off-body mode is obtained with a compact meanderedmicrostrip patch placed inside the ring. The two antennas are fed separately but share a common ground plane and use only fabricmaterials facilitating the integration into the user’s clothes. The antenna operation is characterized when placed on a phantom mimicking a human torso. Input match, mutual coupling, radiation pattern, radiation efficiency, and path loss measurements are presented and show good agreement with simulations.
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Body area network (BAN) Body phantom Dualmode antenna Off-body, on-body Wearable antenna
Citation
MENDES, Carlos; PEIXEIRO, Custódio – A Dual-Mode Single-Band Wearable Microstrip Antenna for Body Area Networks. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. ISSN 1536-1225. Vol. 16 (2017), pp. 3055-3058
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers